The Mirror's TV previewer is unconvinced by Neil Oliver's three-part series which is a towering spectacle of non-information

Spoiler alert! Nobody knows what inspired our Neolithic ancestors to erect stone
monuments and mounds all over the country, why they chose to put them where they did and exactly what their significance was supposed to be.

But that doesn’t stop Neil Oliver from
making another tour of the British Isles for this three-part series in which he asks archaeologists and historians to offer up their best guesses.

Setting the tone for this towering spectacle of non-information
is historian Professor Ronald Hutton, who explains to Neil what significance human bones might have had to Neolithic farmers.

“They could be a treasure house of supernatural power,” he tells him.

“They could be a telephone box through which you communicate with the divine.

“They could be a Tardis taking you imaginatively to the worlds which the sacred dead now inhabit...”